ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,107, issued on April 22.
"Rapid, automatic directional beam alignment in 5G/6G networks" was invented by David E. Newman (Poway, Calif.) and R. Kemp Massengill (Palos Verdes, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Beam alignment is a critical requirement in 5G-Advanced and 6G due to the high density of user devices anticipated in the coming years. However, prior-art beam alignment procedures are slow and costly in terms of resource usage. Therefore, disclosed herein are methods enabling a user device to determine the direction toward the base station rapidly at very low cost. The base station emits a tailored pulse with an angle-depend...